What now? Budapest’s electricity in trouble

Increased energy prices will be a huge challenge for Budapest and the whole world next year, and we do not even know exactly how much Budapest will pay for electricity, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony told ATV.

Buses will replace the iconic cogwheel throughout the winter (as we also reported), with the temporary shutdown lasting until the end of the planned spring track renewal, napi.hu writes. According to Gergely Karácsony, they cannot excluded that there will be similar painful decisions in the coming months. The mayor told ATV that they have to save money because they do not receive any government aid.

At the last session of the Municipal Assembly, the mayor of the 7th district, Zoltán Pokorni, said that the capital should try to save on services that are not absolutely necessary. According to Karácsony, the utilisation of the cogwheel is around 10 percent on weekdays, and there are more complaints about noise than about the cogwheel not running.